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A Design Phase Understandability Metric Based on Coupling and Cohesion for Object-Oriented Systems

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Intelligent Computing, Communication and Devices

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As the software size grows, the maintenance become challenging. To make it easier, there is a need to measure some quality parameters in earlier phases of software development. Understandability has a major contribution to control the maintainability. Coupling and cohesion are two well-accepted parameters to measure the software quality parameters. In this paper, a model is proposed to measure the understandability that is based on coupling and cohesion.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SIET, Allahabad, India

    Nikita Singh

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, MNNIT Allahabad, Allahabad, India

    Aprna Tripathi

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  1. University of Canberra, Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Mathematics, Canberra, Australia, and University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engin, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Srikanta Patnaik

  3. Department of Premier and Cabinet, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    Nikhil Ichalkaranje

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Singh, N., Tripathi, A. (2015). A Design Phase Understandability Metric Based on Coupling and Cohesion for Object-Oriented Systems. In: Jain, L., Patnaik, S., Ichalkaranje, N. (eds) Intelligent Computing, Communication and Devices. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 308. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2012-1_33

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